Whole Foods employees in Philadelphia vote to form first union for the grocer

Published January 28, 2025 8:56am ET



Employees of the Whole Foods grocery store in Philadelphia voted to unionize on Monday in a narrow victory.

This is the first union for the Amazon-owned store. It came down to a narrow margin of 130 workers voting to join the United Food and Commercial Workers while 100 voted against it. This union also represents about 835,000 workers from Kroger, Albertsons-Safeway, Giant, Stop & Shop, Raley’s, Piggly Wiggly, and ShopRite. 

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